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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/weather-hits-fiveaside-company.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Sales for Goals Soccer Centres were lifted in 2010 by the World Cup" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-weather-hits-fiveaside-company.jpg" alt="Sales for Goals Soccer Centres were lifted in 2010 by the World Cup"/></a></p>
<p>Goals Soccer Centres has said its post-World Cup sales revival was brought to an end last year as the snowy weather in December wiped £900,000 from its profits.</p>
<p>The UK&#8217;s fastest growing branded operator of five-a-side football pitches said like-for-like sales, which exclude the opening of new centres, were down 4% in 2010 as adverse weather kept players away from its 41 centres at the start and the end of the year.</p>
<p>The East Kilbride-based firm estimates that without the impact of the weather, like-for-like sales would have increased by 1%.</p>
<p>Sales struggled in the first half of 2010, but lifted by 3% in the two months after the World Cup in the summer as interest in the tournament drove a rise in bookings for children&#8217;s parties and corporate events.</p>
<p>But the snow at the end of the year pushed sales down again as operating profits for the year slumped 6% to £10 million.</p>
<p>It said the total adverse weather hit for 2010 was £1.7 million, including the impact of snowfall at the start of last year.</p>
<p>However, Goals provided some cheer after reporting a 5% increase in like-for-like sales in the first 55 days of 2011, helped by easier comparatives from a year earlier.</p>
<p>The company, which has a 42% share of the branded five-a-side football market, opened five new centres in the year at Liverpool, Portsmouth, Ipswich, and Eltham and Hounslow in London.</p>
<p>In the past two months it has opened three centres, in Sunderland, Liverpool and Norwich, which were delayed by the bad weather, and plans to open a minimum of four centres a year.</p>
<p>Overall sales were up 6% to £27.8 million, helped by opening new centres in the UK and a new centre in Los Angeles &#8211; its first in the US. Goals said its growing network of centres leaves it well placed to take advantage of the growing popularity of 5-a-side football.</p>
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